Zeppelin Raids Hit Northeastern England Towns With Little Damage
A Zeppelin airship raided Blyth Wallsend and surrounding towns near Newcastle on a 25 minute flight from the Tyne. Bombs fell in several areas including Wallsend and Beaton with one house set ablaze. one man wounded by shell splinter. No widespread panic noted.
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Newcastle
England
Tyneside
North Sea
Blyth
Tyne
Wallsend
South Shields
Cramlington
Beaton
Elswick
United Kingdom
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Britain
Armstrong Works
Elawick
Krupps
15 Killed in Detroit Streetcar Train Collision
Fifteen persons are reported dead and thirty-nine injured after a street car of the Detroit United Railways was struck by a freight train at the West Jefferson avenue crossing with the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton railroad. The west-bound car, carrying workers, was hurled from the tracks into wreckage. only a few escaped serious harm.
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Detroit
Detroit United Railways
West Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad
Russians win at Mezo Laborcz in Carpathians during 12 hour battle
Russians forced a 12 hour attack to break Austrian right flank at Mezo Laborcz on the Hungarian side of East Reskid mountains. Austrians retreat after hard fight, losing control of the Main crest in the district, fifty miles south of Przemysl.
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Lemberg
Mezo Laborcz
Reskid
Carpathians
Przemysl
Funston Takes Charge of Mexican Border Situation
Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston traveling from San Antonio to Brownsville to assume personal command amid renewed threats on the Mexican border. Also noted, a German submarine passed Bruges en route to Zeebrugge, the fifth to reach the Belgian port recently. Edwin Elisa of St Louis, author of numerous film scenarios including What Happened to Mary, dies in New York of heart failure.
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Washington
Frederick Funston
San Antonio
Brownsville
Tex
Zeebrugge
Stuts
Holland
Bruges
Ghent
New York
Election fraud case ends with 116 sentenced in Indiana
Circuit Judge Anderson sentenced mayor Donn M Roberts to six years in Leavenworth and a $2000 fine, among 116 defendants. Sheriff Dennis Shea and Eli Redman received five years, others got three years or less, and several saloonkeepers and city officials faced fines and prison time. Defense for nineteen leaders appealed to the circuit court of appeals after judgment.
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Indianapolis
Donn M. Roberts
Terre Haute
Anderson
Leavenworth
Dennis Shea
Eli Redman
Harry Montgomery
Arthur Gillis
Joseph Strauss
George Severn
George Woodall
William P. O’donnell
George Evans
John Clark
Sylvester Jordan
George Rouse
Clarence Stark
Frank Kiser
Simon Stingley
Fred Morrison
Engineering Department
Marion County
Circuit Court of Appeals
War News Briefs From Copenhagen to Volkovisk
Reports from Copenhagen say French aviators bombarded Hamburg with bar racks set ablaze and German casualties. Volkovisk saw fifteen killed in an illicit vodka factory blast with a subsequent fire. U S trade data show exports of 50.33 million and imports of 32.65 million for the week ending April 10. Christiania ships sighted about ten warships in the North Sea, believed to be German, with no flags shown.
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Copenhagen
Hamburg
Petrograd
Volkovisk
Washington
United States
Christiania
Norway
North Sea
350 Villa men executed after surrender near Hullachito
Carranza officers report 350 Villa soldiers who surrendered after Monday's battle near Hullachito, about thirty miles south of the border, were executed by Carranza forces. A general ordered machine guns on the surrendering group and the wounded were bayoneted on the field, along with a number of Mexican women estimated at ten to eighteen.
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Laredo
Tex
Carranza
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Villa
Hullachito
Karl Ritter dies after Broadway auto crash
Karl Theodore Francis Ritter renowned chief of sculpture for the Pan American Pacific exposition died in a New York hospital from injuries after he and his wife were struck by an automobile on Broadway. Mrs Ritter sustained minor injuries. Ritter, 47, had come from Vienna in 1889 and lived there. In Pittsburgh Kentucky a 13-year-old son shot and killed his mother after she forbade him to fetch a plaything outdoors.
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New York
Karl Theodore Francis Ritter
Ritter
Broadway
Hitter
Bitter
Vienna
That City
Pittsburgh
Mack Thomas
Strike Paralyzes Milan Industry Over Police Brutality
In Milan on April 16 labor organizations halted all industry for 24 hours to protest police brutality after several workers were killed in Sunday pro war demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Italy
German Drive in Carpathians Ordered by Emperor
Vienna reports on April 15 that Emperor Wilhelm II orders General von Hindenburg to resume the war drive. German eighth inch howitzers resume shelling trenches west of Ossowicz as German corps push to aid Austria in the Carpathian front amid stubborn Russian defenses and rising losses.
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Emperor
Germany
von Hindenburg
Warsaw
Teutons
Carpathians
Vienna
Przemysl
Carpathian
Austrian War Office
Ondava
Latorcza
Petrograd
Pillea
Dunajec
Cracow
Middle Carpathians
Mezo-Laborez
Uzsok
Litzinger
Transylvania
Hungary
Stryj-Munkacs
Kizionoka
Kaiser
East Prussia
Ossowicz
Riggs Bank Sues McAdoo And Williams In DC
The Riggs National Bank filed suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court seeking injunctions against Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Williams. It claims sustained persecution for over a year culminating March 30 when government bond interest was refused. The bank alleges a $100 daily penalty tied to reporting failures.
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Washington
Riggs National Bank
McAdoo
Williams
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Messrs
United States
William Rockhill Nelson dies at 74 in Kansas City
William Rockhill Nelson editor and owner of the Kansas City Star died at his home in Kansas City on Tuesday at age seventy four. He served as publisher and founder of the Evening Star before turning full attention to journalism. Nelson was born March 1, 1847 in Fort Wayne Indiana and educated at Notre Dame University.
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Kanas City
William Rockhill Nelson
Kansas City Star
Mr. Nelson
Fort Wayne
Ind
Notre Dame University
Georgia
Indiana
Fort Wayne Sentinel
Kansas City
Evening Star
Sumner Sails to Tampico to Aid Mexican Refugees
The U S transport Sumner left Galveston on Wednesday for Tampico to assist refugees fleeing Mexico. Maj Joseph Wheeler son of Fighting Joe commands the vessel.
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U. S
Galveston
Tex
United States
Sumner
Tampico
Mexico
Maj
Joseph Wheeler
Fighting Joe
Former Prefect's Son Slain in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
Paris reports that Louis Lepine former prefect of police has learned his son an army surgeon who had been missing since November was killed at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
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Paris
Louis Lepine
Police
Sainte-Marie-aux- Mines
Raider in U S Port Seeks Repairs After Long Sea Run
Fron Prinz Wilhelm, last German raider, seeks port sanctuary in Newport News after 255 days at sea. She sank 15 merchant ships, 12 British, 2 French, 1 Norwegian, with crew starving and beriberi illness afflicting 66 aboard. Commander Thierfeldt reports chased by British cruisers and no port calls since leaving New York.
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Newport News
Germany
New York Harbor
Daleby
Thierfeldt
Norman R. Hamilton
Hal McCafferty
United States
Old Point
New York
Belgian relief ship Harpalyce sunk in North Sea
The British steamer Harpalyce, aiding Belgium relief, was torpedoed or sunk by a mine on a return voyage. Dutch vessels Elizabeth Catharina and Constance Cath erina rescued 22 and five crew members respectively. The ship's crew numbered 53 with 26 feared drowned. Red Cross markings had been removed before departure. Grimsby steam trawlers have also been sunk.
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Rotterdam
Harpalyce
New York State
Commission For Relief
Belgium
North Sea
Elizabeth
Red Cross
Grimsby
Great Liner Goes on Rocks
Five steamers and two Japanese warships rushed to aid the American liner Minnesota ashore in the inland sea near Nippon. The Minnesota carried 200 passengers and 278 crew on a Manila to Seattle voyage under Captain Garlick. Mrs Francis B Harrison and two children were aboard. The Cania rescued the passengers.
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Tokyo
Minnesota
S. C
Long Strait
Nippon
Kiushin
Shikoku
Manila
Seattle
Minnesota Ws
Garlick
Francis B. Harrison
The
Philippine Islands
Blue Funnel Line
Cania
Sick of the Thaw case diagnosis forces retirement
Deputy Attorney General Franklin Kennedy, stressed by work on the Thaw case, is diagnosed with a nervous illness now requiring temporary retirement. Attorney General Woodbury confirms the diagnosis and notes he has gone away to rest. This is cited as a new decade’s illness.
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New York
Franklin Kennedy
Woodbury
Miners Die In Calumet Mine Cave-In
In Calumet Michigan April 15 two men are dead and four others believed dying after a wall collapse at the Hecla branch of the Calumet and Hecla mine.
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Calumet, Mich
Hecla
Calumet and
Eight British trawlers overdue off Grimeby England
Eight British trawlers with about 85 crew are long overdue off Grimeby England and feared sunk in the North Sea by mines or German submarines.
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Grimeby
England
North Sea
Katwijk Torpedoed Off Noordhinder Arousing Dutch Anger
Dutch government steamer Katwijk, 2048 tons, was torpedoed at anchor off Noordhinder lightship, Holland, while en route from Baltimore with corn and cotton. Crew of 23 was saved by the lightship. The attack follows seizure of Dutch trawlers and prompts demands for reparations.
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London
Trolland
Noordhinder
Holland
Rotterdam
Baltimore
St. Nicholas
Bentwee
Rymland
Cuxhaven
Katwijk
Erhardt-Dekkers
Ptarmigan
Chicago Carpenters Strike Ends Building Calm in Chicago
Sixteen thousand carpenters in Chicago have been put on strike, signaling a broader fight with contractors and up to 100000 building trades workers. Some carpenters may continue with independent contractors, but wider walkouts loom as disputes escalate over wages jumping from 65 to 70 cents an hour.
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Chicago
Nevitaula
Wage Rise For 12000 Calumet Mine Workers
Calumet Michigan April 16 1924 12 000 workers at the Calumet and Hecla Mining company and subsidiaries receive a 10 percent wage increase restoring prewar rates. Annexation defeat noted as Beach Grove and Broad Ridge fail to join Indianapolis. Judge Burbank rules against annexation in Marion circuit court.
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Calumet, Mich
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
Indianapolis
Burbank
Marion Circuit Court
Beach Grove
Broad Ridge
Aeronaut Dies of Jaundice in Holmesburg Home
Arthur F. Atherholt, noted aeronaut and aeronautics writer, died at his Holmesburg residence from jaundice. He participated in numerous balloon events including international races. Dr Gin Fuey Moy, a Chinese physician, was arrested in Pittsburgh on opium selling charges.
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Philadelphia
Arthur F. Atherholt
Holmesburg
Mr. Atherholt
Pittsburgh
Gin Fuey Moy
Internal Revenue Collector
From Egypt's Famous Queen in a Maryland Birthday Tale
Dean Hermann Schneider recalls a 19th century curiosity in which a Maryland family named a child Clara-Peters after Cleopatra the Queen of Egypt. The anecdote centers on naming customs and the intersection of education and race in America.
American Milk Bottles to Britain Increase Supplies
The London Globe reports a British shortage of milk bottles caused by reliance on Austria. A trade firm says American bottles of equal quality can now be secured at the same price, while British-made bottles would cost 20 percent more and be of inferior quality.
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Britain
Austria
America
London
Globe
Aeroplane Propellers and Wooden Frames Factored
The article notes selected ash and built up spruce mahogany centers as materials for aeroplane propellers. It states wood is commonly used for the machine framework and highlights straight grain and defect absence as favorable traits for aircraft construction amid the European war.
Widow's Smite Provokes Odd Exchange in City Briefs
A Kansas City Star humor item recalls a comic exchange about a widow's smite date. Brother Waller recounts a kneeling scene and a confectionery sediment mishap as a wag of a reply artist ribs the tale with a punchline.
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Waller
Brother Cuddyhump
Kansas City
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Weasel
Admiralty
Chicago Carpenters Strike
Michigan
Calumet
Mane
Egypt
Hermann Schneider
College of Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Maryland
Dean Schneider
Tom Burgee
Clara-Peters
Burgee
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Namin
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